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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsDaily Holidays - January 3
Chocolate Covered Cherry Day Just in case you havent indulged enough over the festive and new year periods, Chocolate Covered Cherry Day is an excuse to break open another box of cherry liqueurs and dig right in! The idea behind chocolate-covered cherries is incredible simple: chocolate is delicious. So are cherries. So one day someone said, Why not combine the two and make something even better? and the chocolate-covered cherry was born! https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/chocolate-covered-cherry-day/Drinking Straw Day Can you imagine drinking a milkshake without a straw? Or how anyone would manage a juice box? How many soft drinks would you have spilled on yourself in dark movie theaters if it werent for straws? I think we can all agree drinking straws have changed our lives for the better enough to deserve their own holiday, and thats exactly what Drinking Straw day is about: celebrating the invention and patenting of the (paraffin-covered) paper drinking straw! https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/drinking-straw-day/
Fruitcake Toss Day Lets be honest: nobody really likes fruitcake, and nobody ever really eats it, either. Heavy, flavorless and always too sweet, fruitcake is one of our centurys biggest holiday jokes. So when Christmas is over, and youve taken the tinsel down, and thrown out the tree, what should you do with that old fruitcake that youve been using to prop open the door/to replace a missing limb/as a headrest? Fruitcake Toss Day has a fruitful answer (see what we did there?). The event, which is reported as having originated in Manitou Springs, Colorado, was created in order to help people get rid of unwanted fruitcake after Christmas. https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/fruitcake-toss-day/
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Daily Holidays - January 3 (Original Post)
Sherman A1
Jan 2016
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bigwillq
(72,790 posts)1. I like drinking from a straw.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)2. I love chocolate covered cherries.
My dad used to buy me a box every year on my birthday. They were the super-runny kind that would drip all over the place!
malthaussen
(17,216 posts)3. I usually toss my fruitcake after I eat it. n/t